Surviving Mars - Surviving Mars crashes when click the Build Metal Extractor icon

[elipsett]

Description
Surviving Mars crashes when click the Build Metal Extractor icon


Windows


Steam

What is your game version?
1001586

Do you have Space Race installed?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
The tutorials completed normally. On my own, everything seems normal until I click the icon to build a metal extractor, and then the app exits without error message or anything. I can relaunch immediately without any problem.

Can you replicate the issue?
It happens whether WeMod is active, on but inactive, or not launched at all.
The problem appears to happen every time.
I have tried changing various settings and disabling other apps, with no effect.
The EXE is listed as an exception in BitDefender just to be safe, but BD does not log a problem with the app.

Here are some crash logs.

Any ideas on what to look at next?

Attachments
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[ChoGGi_2]

Those are logs, not crash logs. There should be a crashes folder where the logs folder is. Look for .crash files

 

[elipsett]

Nope. No crash folder, no crash files.

 

[elipsett]

This is the native Japanese version Win10, and runs a host of other Steam games with and without WeMod, and no problems with any of them.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

Oh, so it's crashing without showing crash logs, nice

You could try using my log flush mod, it might show more stuff in the log?

Never heard of that wemod tool before, this game does have modding built-in though.

 

[elipsett]

wemod dot com

As I said, though, the problem persists whether WeMod is active, running but inactive in this game, or not running at all, so it's unlikely to be the culprit.
You have any info on how "log flush mod" (realizing that I know very little about mods at all...)

 

[elipsett]

Not surprisingly, I'm on Japan time, so don't be surprised if I don't respond to your questions until after you've left for the day... but if you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them.

 

[AndrewT]

wemod dot com

As I said, though, the problem persists whether WeMod is active, running but inactive in this game, or not running at all, so it's unlikely to be the culprit.
You have any info on how "log flush mod" (realizing that I know very little about mods at all...)

It's a link in his signature here.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

All it does it flush the log to the file during certain times, hopefully it'll get some more info in the log (hopefully).

 

[elipsett]

Well, I still don't know what caused the problem, but installing your mod library and flush log made the problem go away. No cheats, just those two.
I really would have preferred to identify and kill the root cause, but I'll settle for a working game.

Thanks very much for the assist!

 

[ChoGGi_2]

... Those mods shouldn't fix anything. Does it still crash without my library mod (not sure why you installed that one)?

 

[elipsett]

Well, I removed the mods and ran the game vanilla, and the problem is now gone.
I haven't made any changes in anything since I first installed the game, but all sorts of things update automatically in the background.
Perhaps because I ran the mod once, perhaps because of something else, I don't know, but the problem seems to be gone.

Thank you very much for your time! And I guess this case can be closed...